Chapter 557 - 556: 9-Zhang Snake Body

Chapter 557: Chapter 556: 9-Zhang Snake Body

CLINK! CLANK!

With a series of wild roars, a giant snakeskin was shed, and a layer of blood-stained black scales clattered to the ground.

This was Qin Feng’s second time shedding his skin.

Achieving the Black Water Profound Snake True Body was only the beginning.

The first molting was the most crucial part. Only by surviving it could one be considered to have truly mastered the Black Water Profound Snake True Body.

For the first time, Qin Feng realized just how agonizing it was for a serpent to shed its skin.

It was like death by a thousand cuts. Layer by layer, the old skin was forced out inch by inch by new scales growing from his flesh and blood in an excruciating trial.

The newly grown scales were full and dark, each one exuding a jet-black luster without the slightest imperfection.

The ninety-foot black serpent possessed a strange, alien kind of beauty.

With a sweep of its tail, it flicked off the old skin clinging to its scales. This old hide was tougher than cowhide and impervious to blades. If an ordinary Martial Arts Strongman were to obtain it, they could probably fashion it into a fine, life-saving tunic.

Qin Feng tried to move with his serpent body. It felt awkward at first, but he quickly got the hang of it.

As the transformation completed, the combat instincts of the Black Water Profound Serpent clan awakened.

This was an inheritance from the deepest part of his bloodline.

Qin Feng coiled his serpent body, digesting the inherited combat talents from the depths of his bloodline.

A moment later, Qin Feng opened his serpent pupils. Through vertical, gold-flecked irises, he began to experience this change for the first time.

First was his lifespan. Having transformed into a Black Water Profound Serpent, his life expectancy was now exceptionally long.

It was over two thousand years, rivaling that of a Martial Dao Great Power.

Next was his Cultivation. After achieving the Black Water Profound Snake Body, the One Yuan Black Water within him had condensed completely into a single mass, no longer in the state of individual drops.

Qin Feng felt that during his transformation into the Black Water Profound Snake Body, he had naturally comprehended many Water Profound Mysteries as if they were Talent Divine Abilities.

It was an instinct from the depths of his bloodline.

Qin Feng opened his mouth, and a perfectly round orb glowing with a dark light appeared before him.

This was a Primordial Spirit Pill.

It was a Primordial Demon Pill, forged from the essence of the One Yuan Black Water in the Black Water Profound Serpent’s body, mixed with his bloodline and Soul Essence.

It was the fundamental item for one to prove their Dao and become a Demon God.

’A Low-grade Demon Pill!’

According to the inheritance within the Black Water Profound Serpent bloodline, ordinary Alien Species experts who had just condensed their true bodies would form a Low-grade Demon Pill.

Only pure True Spirits, like the first- and second-generation Black Water Profound Serpents, would form a Top-grade Demon Pill.

As for the third-generation Black Water Profound Serpents, they would form a Middle-grade Demon Pill.

At this Realm, a Black Water Profound Serpent needed to comprehend the Water Profound Mysteries and perceive the Water Origin for Nurturing and refining its Demon Core.

Above the Low-grade Demon Pill was the Middle-grade Demon Pill, and above that was the Top-grade Demon Pill.

When the Demon Core reached the level of a Top-grade Demon Pill, one could begin to face the Nine Great Celestial Tribulations. Once they passed, they would become a Demon King Level Alien Race Great Power.

If they passed four Celestial Tribulations, they would be qualified to become a Demon Saint.

As for how to refine the Demon Core, there were several methods. One was to cultivate diligently, firm one’s path, polish one’s mind, and temper it by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth.

The second was to seek out a Treasure of Heaven and Earth—a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure with Attributes compatible with the Demon Core—and use its Spiritual nature for Nurturing.

This included Innate Objects.

For example, if Qin Feng’s Black Water Demon Pill could obtain one of the Nine Great Innate True Waters, refining it into a Top-grade Demon Pill would be effortless.

Another way was to use the power of Elixirs or devour others of the same kind.

However, Elixirs contained Pill Poison, and it would take a long time to purge the impurities before it could be assimilated.

There were a few other methods as well.

But in the end, the path was a winding one.

Qin Feng wasn’t thinking that far ahead. This was his first time in a serpent’s body, and he was more focused on the novelty. He discovered he could use many water-element Divine Abilities with ease.

Stirring up winds and waves and commanding massive tides were now instinctual. In the water, he could exert nearly two hundred percent of his power.

The power unleashed by his Divine Abilities had truly reached the Martial Arts Giant Level.

Furthermore, because he had condensed an unprecedented one hundred and twenty-nine thousand, six hundred drops of One Yuan Black Water, the power within him was far more tyrannical than that of any expert from the Black Water Division.

The self-generating Black Water Demon Power in his body was terrifyingly immense.

It had surged by at least tenfold.

He swallowed the Black Water Demon Pill in a single gulp.

BOOM!

The Cave Mansion shattered. A ninety-foot-long Black Water Profound Serpent burst out of the opening and plunged into the water like a Flood Dragon returning to the sea.

Strangely, as the black serpent slipped into the water, it didn’t make the slightest sound.

’It’s been three days. Three whole days. I wonder how many people have entered the Sea God’s Tombyard. Surely those old fossils haven’t all emerged, have they?’

Qin Feng wasn’t too worried about those old antiques emerging now.

He wasn’t the one who needed to worry the most.

He figured that the ones who should be most anxious about these old antiques emerging weren’t him, but the Seventy-two Sects and the Sea Race’s Dragon Palace.

What Qin Feng was most worried about was Bai Yan’Er.

’Once I get out of here, I’m definitely going to kill Xuan Wuji and Ye Ding!’

He vowed fiercely in his heart.

His serpent body moved through the water as fast as a sharp arrow.

An hour later, he appeared within the thousand-mile sea region at the edge of the Sea Soul Continent.

This time, no Sea Beasts came to bother Qin Feng.

With a flash of black light, a ninety-foot black serpent burst from the water’s surface and landed on an inconspicuous shoal of the Sea Soul Continent.

Another flash of black light, and a human figure landed on the ground.

Qin Feng reverted to his appearance as Yan Ge and looked up. A vast tombyard appeared before him, one built amidst ruins.

He could make out two distinct styles at the tombyard’s edge. One was Divine and majestic, while the other carried an air of twilight.

Inside the tombyard, the grass was a lush carpet, and fragrant flowers bloomed. If not for the vast Monument Forest, one could have easily mistaken it for a garden.

The outskirts of the tombyard were lined with tall, red, ancient maple-like trees.

The trees’ branches were covered in lush, green leaves, while their red Bosha swayed gently in the breeze, as if reminiscing about a glorious past.

The petals, the color of a setting sun and as crimson as blood, seemed to tell of a past sorrow.

Qin Feng stepped forward. Legend had it that these ancient trees were formed from the Blood Qi of a Venerable.

An unusual, blood-like fragrance emanated from these blood-red maple leaves, and an aura of decay, like a setting sun at twilight, saturated every inch of this land.

This place was said to hold the last sliver of Vitality for the many Ancestors of the Sea Race, but it felt more like a place of desolate endings.

’Where did everyone go? Logically, after so many days, someone should have reached this Sea God’s Tombyard by now!’

He paused before a blood-red ancient tree so thick it would take six or seven people with arms outstretched to encircle it. Taking in the twilight aura of the tombyard, Qin Feng scanned his surroundings.

There were many ancient tombs here, but most belonged to the nameless.

Qin Feng tried digging one up, but beyond a few mounds of yellow earth, he found nothing, not even bones.

’Something’s not right. The people who entered the Sea God’s Tombyard earlier wouldn’t just vanish for no reason. There’s something strange about this place... huh? It feels like something is watching me!’ he mused, though his expression remained unchanged.

He suddenly felt as if a pair of eyes were fixed on him from the shadows.

’Could it be that the old fossils buried here have already started to awaken?’

Qin Feng grew vigilant.